A $1.5 million grant gives UH researchers the tools to analyze bits of cosmic dust
The University of Hawaii is developing one of the world's most advanced laboratories to study the origin of the solar system.
"The university is trying to build the premier centre in the world for stu...

The formation of molecular hydrogen in the interstellar medium (ISM) is a process of fundamental importance
Recent experimental results about the formation of molecular hydrogen on astrophysically relevant surfaces under conditions close to those encountered in the interstellar...

Title: Evidence for dust accumulation just outside the orbit of Venus Authors: Ch. Leinert, B. Moster To contribute to the knowledge of dynamics of interplanetary dust we are searching for structures in the spatial distribution of interplanetary dust near the orbit of Venus. To this end we study t...

The hit song that proclaimed, "All we are is dust in the wind," may have some cosmic truth to it. New findings from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that space dust -- the same stuff that makes up living creatures and planets -- was manufactured in large quantities in the winds of blac...

'Pillars of Creation' Formed in the Shadows Research by astronomers at the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies suggests that shadows hold the key to how giant star-forming structures like the famous "Pillars of Creation" take shape. The pillars are dense columns within giant cloud...

NASA researchers and scientists from the United States, Germany and Japan have found a new mineral in material that likely came from a comet. The mineral, a manganese silicide named Brownleeite, was discovered within an interplanetary dust particle, or IDP, that appears to have originated from c...

The most detailed measurements to date of the dusty disks around young stars confirm a new theory that the region where rocky planets such as Earth form is much farther away from the star than originally thought.
"These first definitive measurements of planet-forming zones offer important c...

The Local Interstellar Cloud, casually called the Local Fluff, is the interstellar cloud (roughly 30 light years across) through which the Solar System is currently moving. The Solar System entered the Local Interstellar Cloud at some time between 44,000 and 150,000 years ago and is expected to r...